Is there a way to display the number of items in a user's inventory? I would think that it would be displaying $total from class_inventory.php but have not yet found the right syntax for it to work.

On my site I have a top bar with their UN, number of new messages, etc. and I wanted to display it there so I think I need something for class_template.php so that I could just put {$total} in my template where I want to display the number.